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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by energy123 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @06:29PM (#41020608)
That's an economically illiterate comment. You're confusing scarcity of labor, which determines price, with the utility that that labor generates.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by stale2002 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @09:21PM (#41021625)
This isn't the 1900s, dude.

If supply for labor goes a bit down, wages will increase a bit, and then companies will be incentivized to replace these bad jobs with automation.

Those jobs going away, and wages going up, is a good thing not a bad thing.

As few people should be doing those bad jobs as possible, and for the ones that do them, they should be paid more.

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